got my pb mulloway at 18kg on a dead scalie at the sheds :) 

as fat as the bucket :)

this is the macky from sunday secomd in 3 weeks this one went 20 kg

caught this beast down in lano late last year and putt up a pretty good fight

took 45 min to bring in and faught very simlar to a mulloway fight running up and down the beach then straight out for 2 massive runs and kept us guessing till the last ten min of the fight when we saw it's dorsal fin

was about 6/7 foot and weighed 40 kg

We had a troll out behind West End on Tuesday the 5th for mackies managed a couple of hits but no hook ups, had a small window of opportunity with the weather Sunday morning the 17th so we decided to have another go at the Spaniards. Leaving Cockburn boat ramp at 5.15am we headed out to West End. Just south of west end we pulled up to get things organised the conditions were abit dark and gloomy heavily overcast and the water abit messed up with the light SW wind water temp reading 24.7 degrees. Got Yvonne behind the wheel while I set the rods and get my home made witch doctor (nick named the Moylator) in the water for its virgin trial. With my rod set I had just place the second rod into the holder and about to get the witch doctor in the water when my Live Fibre rod buckled over and the Tekota 700 started screaming after a good 10 minute battle and a couple of blinding runs my first metro mackie was on the boat!..Followed by some very loud Ye Ha's and a big squeeze for the girl.

Off we went again heading north out from west end not much happening that way so we decided to loop back and follow our track back to the mark where we got the first mackie my rod running a silver white red head X-Rap and Yvonnes rod a bluewater F18 white red head and now had the home made witch doctor in the water which was working a treat some really good flashing even in the overcast conditions. We had not gone far past the mark on the plotter when caos hit both rods were hit at exactly the same time, there I was trying to give Yvonne advice trying to fight my fish and keep it hooked up and get the witch doctor out of the water one handed when and as I could. After a good fight Yvonne had her first mackie at the boat but unfortunately threw the the hooks with a head shake. The fish I had on didn't want to know anything about coming near the boat it wanted to stay down deep and every time we got a glimps of colour it was off on another run eventually coming down to a slug out from one side of the boat too the other after about 15 minutes my second metro mackie was on the boat with on very shakey angler....With the first fish caught at around 7.15 and the second fish landed at around 8.00 and the conditions starting to get alittle worse we decide to head back into the sound and try Sulphur Bay GI for some squid we picked up 16 rather well sized squid in about an hour and a half and headed home to the ramp.

All in all we had a great day out

Chili squid and mackie steaks! Oh Yeah!

on thuresday, whent down to the river for a bream sesh...., fished some new locations with good results, first location using mainly vibes, and the occasional plastic, I pulled 3 bream, 2 flathead, lots of herring and some nice tailor all on konganku vibes and my mate puled out a flathead and some herring.

we then moved spots and I got instantly rewarded with a close to 40cm silver bream (arround 38cm), then shortly after picked up a juvinile pinkie and my mate caught a wrasse!!! lol haha

moved again and ended up getting a couple more smaller bream.

today,

started off at the same spot as thuresday and we picked up 2 flatties, 4 bream, herring and some wierd fish... lol.

moved again about an hour before sunset to get some sambos!!!, as soon as we got there, about 5th cast, I hooked upto my fist for the day, and after it trying to bust me off in every pylon in the area, and taking lots of line, i finally landed it. it was caught on a Zipbait sinking stick bait, worked verry fast and vigerous. not too long after hooked into another one, this time on a live bait, and he almost drilled me a couple of times in the pylons and shreded my light leader but somehow finally landed it. it had a demunted/retarded tail but still fought exeptionally well!!!!, changed to a new leader and sent down another livey which didnt get eaten, so when i was winding it back up, about 10-15 sambos, came charging up after it and one nailed it on the surface like a GT smashing a popper. was awesome!!!

unfortunetally my mates didn't land any sambos.

I also got another bream and some retarded fish.....   I am pretty sure that it is a Rough eye??? (last picture)

cheers,

good fishing all

Tom

Hi crew well I have just recently returned from a trip to Exmouth and what a great trip, altho the weather was a little hit and miss we still managed to pull a few good fish most days and Team Twitchy did very well in the FW comp...

I headed up to Exxy with Elise aka MRSTWITCHEMUP, Steve aka PLOP and Mak aka FISHNCRAZY we arrived at the lighthouse by midday the 5th of April and were off to launch at Tantabiddi by 2pm which is where we did most of our fishing over the week due to the wind.....

Great way to start the trip with a healthy little Coronation Trout on placcy from Tantas..

FISHNCRAZY with his first sized Coral Trout a 60cm specimen caught at Cooper shoals in the Gulf on plastic..

MRSTWITCHEMUP with a cracker 11kg Golden Trev that made her piss on 20lb, caught at the bottom of the Gulf on placcy..

The first few days were spent fishing the windows in the weather/wind so back to Tantabiddi we went where FISNCRAZY caught the best Rankin of the trip in 24m on placcy..

Next up for me was this healthy Coronation Trout jigged up in 25m.. such an awesome looking fish..

PLOP with a nice Golden Trev, we found heaps of these fellas in the north channel at Tantabiddi feeding under floating sea weed and by casting lightly weighted 2 - 4 inch plastics at em we landed 10 and dropped 4 more in one awesome 2 hr session...

My 5 - 6kg Golden on PE 2 in 3 - 4m soooo much fun....

FISHNCRAZY with his 7kg Golden..

The daily double.. we had heaps of double and triple hookups the Goldens were smashin anything that moved..

2nd day of comp which was blown and rained out and saw most teams sit it out but Team Twitchy decided to hit the shallows inside Ningaloo Reef south of Tantabiddi, lucky we did as I managed to catch 2 x 1m plus Cobia in 2 casts in 2 m of water off the one bommie....

This second Cobia was slightly bigger.... notice the storm front in the background..

PLOP with a solid 63cm Spango that drilled his Halco Scorpion in 3 m... We were about to measure this fish in for the comp when......

This 65cm Spango crunched my Cultiva Savoy Shad 20 seconds later.. This Spanglie WON us the biggest Spanglie prize in the FW comp...

After smashing the Tantabiddi Shallows and doing it tough in the wind and rain the weather started to improve by mid afternoon so I headed out to the corner of north passage where FISHINCRAZY picked up this tasty 50cm Trout...

I found some good looking ground with a nice flare up holding lots of bait and dropped down a plastic in 28m jigged the plastic back up through the bait schools and "smack" something had come at least 15m off the bottom to inhail the placcy.. My PB Coral Trout at 77cm and around 7kg's.. also WON the longest Trout prize at the FW comp with this fish...

Another Veiw of the beast... check out those teeth..

Last day off the comp day 3 and after a slow morning start MRSTWITCHEMUP nails this 8kg Golden Trev again under the sea weed measuring in at 91cm.. This Golden also WON the longest Trevally prize in the comp...

With only half a day left in the FW comp and with awesome weather I decided to head out to Helby Bank and drop a few plastics out along the back edges after catching lots of small emperors, trout and other small fish and getting sharked repeatedly on anything that half resembled a decent fish.

After continues moves to get away from sharks and to sound for ground there was only a half hour of fishing time left in the day when we hear a huge splash behind the boat we all turn around to see a Beaky free jumping 20m from the boat then next thing we know "bang" Steve's rod loads up and points towards the free jumping beaky we then realise the beaky has smashed Steve's plastic on the drop and he's on... YYEEWWW...

After a 15-20min fight with boat in chase Steve lands his first Sailfish and on plastic caught on a Stella 5000 SW PE 4 S-Extreme rod... After a couple of quick photo's I held the Saily over the side swam him for a min or 2 and off he went such a great feeling releasing an amazing sport fish like that. A first for my boat and awesome capture and most unexpected, the perfect way to top off an amazing trip we also were one of the 4 teams to land 1 Bill Fish each in the FW comp so we shared 4 ways in the prize money with the other teams another win for us...

So all in all a very succesfull trip for Team Twitchy we didn't really go in the comp to win it just used it for an excuse to fish hard over the 3 days and we somehow managed to win 4 of the prizes in the comp which I must say again a huge thank you to Adam and crew for putting together a very well run event and all the sponsors for the prizes. It was great to catch up a with a few fellow members, sorry if I didn't get to meet all of ya's, but don't worry Team Twitchy will be back next year but for 2 or 3 weeks next time 1 week just wasn't long enough...

Cheers for the read all..

Lloyd

hi all took my 3.8 m tinny out this morning, off ocean reef chasing mackies..... weather was shit conditions, rough and choppy, altho forecast said otherwise...out on other side of 3mile... not many  bait schools around, but managed 1 mackie... my 1st attempt and 1st ever mackie... very happy

My first fishwrecked post...please be gentle haha.

Making tuesday and wednesday night by mulla hunting nights this week, thought it was a great opportunity with the upcoming full moon tides and bit of rain to flush the mullas out the rivers. 
Tuesday night went down to the local for a cast, fighting the strong winds and weed I had a wicked run on sunset....but failed to hook up. 
Wednesday night, determined to get my revenge....hit the same beach. The calmer weather and no weed was very much welcomed. However, the pickers were ferocious and driving me insane. Herring/Tarwhine were jagged on my rig every cast after 30 seconds of soaking. 
Just before 9pm, the pickers died off....that eery calmness, then crap combo of the two I had out had a picker looking bite, but then took off at full speed about 50m. 
When I grabbed the rod, the fish had stopped and I was angry as for a brief moment, as this was the second in two days. But i chanced it and wound in quickly as I thought it had to be hooked with the tighter than normal drag I was running. I gained a good 80m of line before i realised it was still on it just ran right back into the shorebreak. Lucky break #1. 
When it had realised I was into it, it ran out a good 50m peeling line like expected with bone rattling headshakes. Managed to gain half that before it did another 4-5 smaller runs of maybe 20m but it felt more like a ray now (i knew otherwise though). Really weird, I guess I know what people mean now when they think they hooked a stingray. The odd headshake here and there, but nothing like a fish. 
This fish took me up and down a good 100m+ of beach riding at the back of the shorebreak. In the final stages after about 10 mins, my heart dropped as I felt the hooks pull, thinking I was on barely by one hook, i backed off the drag a bit. Lucky Break #2. On my 2nd Attempt I managed the beach the mulloway, to realise that hooks had pulled and the hooks had managed to foul the fish on the underside of the gills. Lucky Break #3. 
I was stoked.....
Measurements: 120cm, a healthy 16kg. (I actually use calibrated scales, not thumbsuck).

Where the hooks pulled and fouled....luck as!

Well it must be nearly 2 months since i wet a line, I was sat in work on the net yesterday looking at the weather, and thought a SW at 15knots ish, 2.5m swell, but an outgoing tide as i wasnt going to get there till gone 5, but as the sun was setting i thought i might still have a chance of picking something up. Plus i wasnt on dog walking duty too, gf's turn.

So i rushed back from work, grabbed my gear and my 2 month old bait from the freezer which wasnt a good thing, all my mulies were useless, but i had some scaly macks so i used them.....

So i got to Hillarys aqwa just after 5 and set up my running sinker rig with a gang hooks and after starting on the mulies (which were old n soft n useless) i went over to fillets of scallies. after 20 mins, my rod was in the holder and as i was flicking my small rod around i saw my big rod bend, shit no drag taken, was set light too, then again, i was reeling in my small outfit quick as  i didnt want to leave it in the water as the waves were a bit rough, bollocks missed it,so i brought my rig in, it had stolen my fillet.

Anyway another half hour passed and i had two more takes but no hook ups, i was getting a little bit irritated at this point, i was thinking my hooks are too big, was about to change them to smaller hooks but put another fillet on and gave it another cast as i was feeling lazy, it was nearly dark now too.

As i sat on the rocks with rod in hand a couple minutes went by and tap tap on by rod, bang i struck and YES IM IN, good bend in my rod and taking my drag, hell yeah.... Guessing it as a tailor but my rod was pretty dam heavy and iot was pulling good n then bang out it jumped, yes a Tailor haha.... now then waves were coming in on the rocks below , so i had to be carefull not to lose it, managed to get it in the bucket all safe n well and woooooooo a 46cm Tailor from hillarys, sweet as, im a very happy man.

i get happy catching whiting n herring, so as you can imagine i was extremely happy as it was only my 3rd Tailor and my new PB.

So last 2 times i fished at aqwa, i targeted tailor and came up trumps, my 1st ever Tailor was taken there about the same conditions too, it went 28cm, then my 2nd was 32cm, and now a bigger at 46cm, so now i'm hoping that will be the trend for the next 1 too.

Cheers for reading, i'll post a pic tonight when i get home, just sat in work at the moment

TonyT

The whole 46cm........

The previous fisho must of got bitten off, oh well their loss is my gain.

Hi Guys

A little delayed but a mate (GT) took me out off hillaries (just behind the reef) last Wednesday and I am still gobsmacked that we hooked two mackies and a northern bluefin tuna. I reckon the one below was around the 15kg mark. Hopefully they stick around for a little bit longer.

Cheers

Shane

Hi all just wondering if any one had any luck with the mackies over the weekend or today. And how much longer they will hang around for with this weather .

From what I've seen so far, beaches full of weed, dirty water in close.  Locals going out at least 8 miles for crays.

Hope beaches/ramps clear up for Easter break.  Town ramp is full of weed and very surgy at the moment, high tide as well.

Let you all know what I hear as far as fish caugh on beaches or out further in boats.

Well, on saturday night Me and JohnM_93 headed to the north mole with the other FW guys in hope of something decent. Rays was all that was around. 6 by the time we left i think. met Sherbs there and suggested we head to his spot, for a fish and a big cat hunt ;). so, a while later, we arrived to a moderate NE, which was alright. rods in the water, we sat back after managing to find some fire wood to start a fire. heard some russeling int he scrub behind us, to the disapointment of only a small fox. at abouyt 2am, my big rod went off. it wasnt fighting much at all, until it got in close then it took off, busting me off on the reef. we then went to sleep, hoping for some tailor in the morning. up at 6 we were met by a freeeezing cold wind. ended up putting a thermal balaclava on, it was so cold. first cast in by 6:15, i had hooked up to what i thought was a big tailor. got it over the reef, to me feet to see a huge snook. measured at 78cm long. second cast i got a sizeable tailor, at 48cm. John and Sherbs wernt having much luck on the big fish, but managed to get a good 15 herring, losing heaps more. was a good weekend, regardless of the temperature and lack of big fish. thanks sherbs for taking us up, deffinately do it again. oh, and no big cats this time, but we will get it eventually.

Cheers.

 Caught this monster squid a few weeks back at busselton jetty at the end after an all nighter. He followed in our Live bait (which sadly wasn't very alive anymore by this stage). We caught 5 more (could have had more too) but this one was by far the biggest. I'm not very good at estimating the length of it but my foot is about a size 10 in comparison. (Although in the picture it looks like a size 4!) Sorry about the quality, it was uploaded on the iphone. 

Hey guys

Got out during the week in some of the best weather we have had off perth for a while. Plenty of fish still out there and still HEAPS of bait around

Bait schools in the morning

Hi guys and gals,

Just letting you all know that its been a very long time since Cockburn Power Boats Club has had any vacancies in their memberships. If anyone is interested now is the time to join as there are a few limited spots. I believe if you pay your nomination fee and join now you do not pay any annual fee until the end of June. The Club has excellent facilities with a licensed bar, new floating jetties, grounds under video surveillance for secure parking, hardstand opportunities, toilets, showers BBQ’s, wash down area, onsite Bosun etc. As a member you can hire out the facilities for your functions at cheap rates.

If you jump on to the web site you can check out the details at www.cockburnpowerboats.com.au or call the office on 9418 5868 or email admin@cockburnpowerboats.com.au

If anybody is interested

Regards

Roberta (CPBA associate member)

One day out from Mindaries with a couple mates.

How close does that shark get to my mates family jewl's LOL

http://youtu.be/Ol_CWvtui90

 .. location parker point 20m water and a halco 160dd gold with red head done the damage

hey there guys and girls

After a long days fishing out near the west end of rotto and trying to chase down these furious an fast fish  for no result on sunday we manager to hook up to a yellow fin tuna and a dolly but we lost both fish :( but hey u get that.

So on tuesday i manage to sweet talk the missus into letting me go out to try and get myself a fish or two. So i headed out to mindarie and got to the ramp at 2pm an was due back at the ramp by 6pm. I waited for my deckie to rock up an then we were on our way. When we got out there boats were scattered all over the place so we found a couple of nice bait schools deep so we trolled around that area an it didnt take long to get a hit but we dropped it bugger............... so we changed lures an i had to borrow one from my deckie (one that he had trolled with in other trips that never got a hit so) i put it on and out it went i think it only took five minutes for the lure to get smashed as all i could do was watch the line dissapear fron my spool. What a rush........

We got back to the ramp with our two fish each at 4.45pm after an awesome afternoon fishing.

 hey guys been lure fishing the canning river for about 5 years now and have just been given a quality camera for my birthday. On a rising tide in late afternoon seems to be the best time to pick up the bigger bream. Recently have been catching some big flatties on both hardbodies and soft plastics. Anyway here are photos, will post more hoping that i remember to bring my camera with me!

hey guys im new to fishing. caught a good sized north western whats the best way to cook it? i cant wait for dinner plz help

One of my good mates here in Pohnpei is unfortunately heading back to Germany on Thursday. We have become fishing buddies over the last 12 months so it was only fitting that we go out for one last session. We quickly found the schools and ended up leaving the dollies in search of something else. We quickly found a few yellowfin schools but unfortunately so had the sharks. I donated few lures before leaving a little frustrated with these efficient killing machines spoiling our fun and turning my day into an expensive one. We found another school about ten minutes later. It was impressive to see the fish boiling on the surface. 10 - 20 yellowfin side by side on the surface chasing bait fish is something I will never forget. We had a double hook up on the first pass and managed to get them both in (minus one tail). The sharks sent that school down so we decided to call it quits and head for home. Yet another great day in paradise. 11 skipjack tuna, 6 yellowfin, 3 dollies and 1 stinky barracuda.

 A mate and i headed out late in the morning on friday to chase some more tailor on richters. Started off slow but eventually my mate hooked up to a nice 45cm fish on the pink plug. The reef seemed pretty empty so we moved to a spot ive never tried before and after finding a promising looking patch of reef my 1-3kg flicky loaded up with a solid fish and my mate hooked up to another fish over 45cms. Finally got my fish in and went a solid 59cms, 2 cms short of my PB, which gave me alot of curry on 8lb.

HI guys 'I,ve finally had enough time to sit down and go through the photos and see what we've got , hope you enjoy looking

One of the Sails we got during the AIBT comp , anglers name is Brian , a true gentleman and allround great bloke and his other half Jan fed us with the best sangas you can imagine

We were just off the money in the AIBT one more fish would have seen a different result , but we knew we were in the hunt , here is Jack hooked up on a Black we called for around 130kgs

Here's Deegsie on the tag pole on my fish we called for around 170kgs , measured 260cm bottom jaw to tail , bugger went deep and made me work on 37kgs for 45 minutes .

Jack swimming a small black for Deegsie

Some Billy's doing what billys do best , going  sick when they feel the pin

Here's the fish that sealed the deal for us 15 minutes to go before lines out and we were a bit happy as anyone who was listening on the radio at the time might have gathered .

We picked up Champion Boat Tag and Release Marlin, Champion Boat Tag and Release Billfish and Champion Tag and Release Skipper for Wirthy , all in all a great result for some hard work , all the guys that fished in both the comps put in the hard yards

and helped get us over the line , The boys from the Bush!!!!

Hey Guys

Well I couldn't resist the window of perfect weather that was 10-3 yesterday and just had to get out on the water for a fish, with all the reports of macks around a lazy few hours of trolling for macks sounded quite nice. The waters sitting around 24.8 degrees and there is plenty of bait around. We definatly noticed a morning bite with the first hour resulting in 4 hookups and one fish landed. trolled for a few more hours with a small sambo taking a lure. Last hour and got our second fish. The fish are deffinatly congregating in the same area so if you hook fish or land one make sure you continue to troll the same ground. Lures that did the damage was a horrible redhead and one or the custom laser pro 190s that i designed for the shop. Anyway heres some pics

Hit the Serpy for a morning bash today and my mate caught this fella?! Seemed a bit strange for this far south, but with the water temps as they are who knows.. Anyone else seen these around down here?

hey guys just sharing my excitement of reaching another goal while fishing for mulloway last night. with the swell up and weed all over the beaches i decided that beach fishing wasnt going to be nice so went to a merto rockwall and tried for another mulla. at 8;30 i finaly heard the reel screaming and my poor little baitrunner 4500 loosing line fast, i lifted it out of the holder and turned the handle to set the drag and lent back, then it took off easily stripping 100m of line off the reel and my glow stick moving the fastest ive ever seen it and then dissapeared as the fish dove down. after about 10mins of climbing back and forth over rocks the fish finaly surfaced and was huge in the torch light, i slowly edged it closer to the rocks and the guy next to me was trying to gaff it i yelled at him not to as it wasnt done and sure enough it took off again. another 10 mins later and this time it was laying on its side and i finaly bent over and gaffed it and brought it up i was amazed at how big it was. not a bad effort for a 6-8kg rod and 30lb line (of course the big fish had to grab my light rod) it was 1.2m long and weighed 20kg and is my second mulloway in 2 weeks and 2 trips chasing them. glad the hard work and research is finaly paying off.

 Had a another great day out, landed this one and droped another two,one things for sure theres heaps out there!hows the lure staight out the packet and now kuput ha ha 

heres the crew happy a the proverbial pig in it with the champion tagg and release skippers trophy for gamex 2011...finished celabrating at 4.30am

bottom pic is the crew from the AIBT comp ....one more fish and we would of made the podium winning boat got 7 fish we finished with 6 ouch,,,,,,GO "PILBRA"PIRATES AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH